Ways not to lock your bike

Took my sisters bike down to london for her at the weekend, had to give her a 10 minute crash course in how to lock it up... I really don't have faith. Hopefully be alright though at Arcadia they have bike cages?

two for the price of none. i know my pictures not clear but these two aren't locked to anything just left outside a central Bristol Tesco. Its at the top of a hill too, i could have been half a mile away while they were still browsing the cereal...

GA2G about an hour ago... Oh, the delicious irony... ;P

WAC!!! What Teen doesn't say, is that myself, he and Fruibat, were all sitting at a table, where we could have all
leaned forward from our chairs and touched my bike. I'm gonna get you for that. I should have taken a picture of your non-polo-ing polo-bike! ;)

Well anyway, at least people can see the size of the GRPS lock I use. 18mm square shaped, and therefore longer
than that in a diagonal cross-section. Maybe 19mm through from corner to corner.

... Its at the top of a hill too, i could have been half a mile away while they were still browsing the cereal...
This is an lfgss trap. Brakes have been disabled.

Maybe 19mm through from corner to corner.

Nearer 25.5mm

That mattty is an alright bloke. I don't care what those rumours were. ;)

Nice one. My £15 lock just seems better and better.

Do you a-holes "hear" what mattty "said"? My cunting squared lock is 24mm+ in thickness, in diameter measurement.

Do you a-holes "hear" what mattty "said"? My cunting squared lock is 24mm+ in thickness, in diameter measurement.

Only if you cut it diagonally. If you cut it square on then it's 18mm the whole way down, unlike a circular cross section which starts off thin and reaches 18mm at the widest point. If effort is a function of the total amount of metal you have to abrade, then your lock is 27% more demanding than an 18mm diameter circular cross section: 18mm squared for yours, versus pi * 9mm squared for a circular lock.

I wish I understood what was going on here (grand fatigue), but that's the cheapo lock from Wilsons in Peckham right?
Damn heavy those but all shades of awesome.

You are most correct good lady.

I luff Wilsons. It smells of oil - like bike shops should. I hate bike shops that smell of nothing but polish.

This is an lfgss trap. Brakes have been disabled.

aha, i may actually want to try that.
have camera's set up too.

and what's with the poor etiquette? all these forlorn wheels around london is starting to clog up perfectly decent bike locking sites.

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Leicester Square today, not the most nickable bike but certainly one of the shitest locks I've seen.

i went camping a couple of weeks ago to seaford,me and the missus were locking our bikes up outside morrsions when we noticed that none of the bikes in the bike rack were locked.
I sometimes wish i lived in a small town,

Mare St, just by the rail bridge. I noticed a single front wheel locked with a massive hefty D lock through one spoke.

Not sure who I'm disappointed in most, the owner for being so utterly crap at locking their bike or the thie f too lazy to take the wheel as well for the price of one spoke.

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Leicester Square today, not the most nickable bike but certainly one of the shitest locks I've seen.

That's really interesting... hmmm... I was in Leicester Sq a week back and saw a really nice new Dutch bike (Batavus) locked up to the same place using exactly the same sort of chain and party-cracker padlock; at the time I thought to myself "Surely no one is that stupid". Now makes me think either stupid person has two very different bikes (and one shit lock) or its some sort of attempt at catching bike thieves with an bait bike... Do our friends with the talking brooches do that sort of thing?

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Leicester Square today, not the most nickable bike but certainly one of the shitest locks I've seen.

Is the yellow one behind yours? Sure I saw that locked up down a small road* in SE1 earlier

*location witheld for obvious reasons...

Is the yellow one behind yours? Sure I saw that locked up down a small road* in SE1 earlier

*location witheld for obvious reasons...

Yeah yellow one is mine but I've not been in that part of town all day. Must be someone with a similar bike going round - I thought I had quite a distinctive whip, there doesn't seem to be many yellow bikes about.

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I hope s/he was only leaving that for a couple of minutes.

Shoulda moved the rail round the corner for joke value :OD

A classic.

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Leicester Square today, not the most nickable bike but certainly one of the shitest locks I've seen.

That chain is so shite I could leave a pet Hamster there to do the dirty work to knaw through it. Perfect crime.

I just put a note on a badly locked pink Brompton in my local Sainsbury's car park, along the lines of "lovely bike, please buy some better locks", and as I was putting it in, found that someone else had already written one, and signed it with a kiss.

Saw this a couple of days ago, I think the locks could be better placed.

I think this person was trying to cover up the freelocking fail in the front garden.